Audit says taxpayers are "extremely unlikely" to earn any return on TARP's $700 billion bailout. Examples of the media's Biden madlib, wherein the Veep travels to reassure world leaders. Success of Marines' F.E.T. units--female engagement teams--should encourage Defense Dept.
In the Middle East, force often trumps diplomacy, though winning a battle can still lose a war. Op: Tens of millions are suffering and Wall Street is printing money--where's the outrage? Chart shows D.C. and Baltimore with 1:1 ratios of job postings to unemployed persons.
Democrats busy writing national health proposals with many variations--including a public option. New Japanese verb: "obamu" (to Obama). After nearly five centuries, the Catholic Church welcomes Anglicans back into the fold. #drac: Kevin Fanning notes the most annoying accents in Dracula, in order of annoyingness. "Maybe
How, in the summer of 1936, a photo depicting drought conditions threatened to derail F.D.R.'s reelection. How Where the Wild Things Are turned my two-year-old into a quantum physicist. TMN's Clay Risen's M.L.K. book featured in Nashville Scene&
Obama unveils softer approach--both sticks and carrots--for Sudan. Tóibín: One benefit of a referendum--e.g., Ireland's vote on the Lisbon Treaty--is seeing who holds the power. What life's like in Kandahar for Westerners without blast walls: isolated, boring, depressing. Moving story of
Tsvangirai's MDC will no longer work with Mugabe's Zanu PF. Britain's $100 million gift to Zimbabwe won't go directly to the government. Italy denies accusations of bribing the Taliban; France outraged, fearing its soldiers died as a result. Europe's inheritance
Britain's far-right National Party agrees to admit nonwhite people as members. Moscow to blow snow clouds away from the city center, banishing powder to the surrounding region. Mao's grandson's blog reveals an unwavering Mao obsession. Willie Nelson's corn-powered tour bus
Thirty-four killed in the fifth big attack by militants in Pakistan in the last 10 days. Amid Obama signs everywhere, America's power far more respected than France's in Guinea. George Packer receives a letter from a Vietnam expert in Kabul. Japan's new Asianism
Clinton pokes Russian bear, prefers Medvedev to Putin, prods Muscovites to be more like Brin. Russian courts side with the badmouthing of Stalin. Instapaper for the commute: Hunting for cigars, and finding much more, in Cuba. Vaclav Havel's thoughts on the current "era of disgust" in
The health-care battle is not Democrats vs. Republicans; it's the White House vs. the insurance companies. GQ's tour through the 50 most powerful people in D.C. Snowe votes with the Democrats--but refuses to promise future cooperation--and is hailed as a master playmaker.
